Ezra Furman announces touring hiatus: “Any sort of touring is effing difficult”
nme.comEzra Furman has announced to fans that she will be taking a break from touring, due to the “pressure and exhaustion” it causes.The American singer-songwriter announced the planned hiatus on her social media pages, revealing that once she completes her upcoming leg of UK shows, she will be holding off on any more tours for “an undecided amount of time”.In the post, shared yesterday (August 15), Furman explained that there are an array of factors that led to her decision, including “a popular explosion of transphobia”, “increasingly corporate-owned music venues”, “COVID-19’ and “the demands of motherhood”.She also revealed that she has faced various “unsettling” encounters with her audience in recent times that have made the thought of hitting the road increasingly difficult.The overarching factor that led to her decision, she explained, is the physical and emotional toll that touring can lead to – saying that 17 years of live shows has taken a “major impact” on her life.“After the upcoming UK shows (Aug.
27-Sep. 3), I’m going on an open-ended hiatus from touring. No shows outside of my hometown of Boston, for an undecided amount of time.
Could be a permanent change, could be different in a year, I just don’t know,” she wrote in the update.A post shared by Ezra Furman (@ezra.furman.visions)“There are many reasons for this.
The best way to summarize it is that I’ve been doing this exhausting and wonderful work for something like seventeen years now (!) and I am tired,” she continued.
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